Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:10:45 -0700 From: Dave Carmean <dlc@silcom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ALSO...superblocks/newfs Q. (was Re: (long) Simult. 2.2.5 .....) Message-ID: <19990616191045.F6633@silcom.com> In-Reply-To: <19990617110108.H9893@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 11:01:08AM %2B0930 References: <19990616181145.C6633@silcom.com> <19990617110108.H9893@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 11:01:08AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 16 June 1999 at 18:11:46 -0700, Dave Carmean wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I've been having some trouble trying to upgrade my old 2.2.5 system > > to 3.1, and am looking for tips. > > 1/2 of sd0 is FreeBSD, the other is a Win95 compressed volume. This > > drive is now full, besides being flaky, so my idea was to dup my > > FreeBSD install onto a new, larger SCSI disk, and then upgrade on > > that copy. Of course, since it's a different geometry, I can't > > just dd the whole thing. > > You'd probably be better off installing from scratch on the new disk, > as you did after running into problems. Provided that I was able to figure out the offsets (using the figures/tables in your book, BTW), would I be hosing myself out of the correct superblock count/position, because the source fs was of a different size/geometry, or disklabel info? 'Cause dd is /so/ much faster than tar for moving 2GB of data, at least the way I'm trying to use it: cd / ; tar cf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xf - ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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